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When a productive member of society has to school a communist on how stuff actually gets made:
May 8
I started Oculus while I was living in a trailer working a minimum wage job. I spent years developing the technology and sold it less than 18 months after hiring my first employees. Most of the $2.3B purchase went to them on account of our shared ownership structure.
Wish all you want, but you just aren't correct on this. Individual people create billions of dollars in value all the time.
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Two adult children playing pretend intelligent people.
Make believe economics.
May 7
AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”
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Idse Val retweeted
May 7
“Trust the science” is genuinely one of the dumbest slogans of all time. The entire point of science is to NOT trust it. It’s not an authority. It’s quite literally meant to be questioned continuously, forever. The replacement of rebellious/disagreeable personalities in science (the only people who can actually create new paradigms) with consensus-seeking ideological cogs is the real tragedy
The collapse of trust in science is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times.
We fed billions, cured diseases and powered nations - yet people ran toward conspiracies instead.
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This is true, when I slid off my motor scooter into oncoming traffic and got hit by a car at roughly 50kmh, the first two things that came to my mind were:
1. Do my legs still work? Answer was yes (huge relief).
2. Would I be able to continue a fist fight right now, like Jason Statham would in a movie?
I would have said yes, I even tried to get up immediately but the guy that hit me was terrified and told me to stay down so I did.
What wasn't fun was not being able to walk without crutches for 2 months after, but in the moment with the adrenaline I felt pretty ok, I even walked myself to the ambulance.
May 6
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We should preserve these people and their culture at all cost, they are our only hope in ever seeing real mermales and mermaids.
Let them evolve further until they have basically become humanoid whales.
May 4
There’s a group of people called the Bajau… and they can dive hundreds of feet underwater with no oxygen tank.
Not for sport, for survival. They spend so much time in the ocean that their bodies have actually adapted over generations.
Scientists found they even have larger spleens, helping them stay underwater longer than most humans ever could.
I understand training your body… but this feels like something else entirely.
Do you think humans are still evolving right now?
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They did the meme
May 5
Aaron Rose Philip, the first Black transgender woman with quadriplegic cerebral palsy signed to a major modeling agency, arriving at the Met Gala.
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This mine has a lot that modern architecture is missing.
What does it say about humanity that we sometimes make prettier things by serendipity than on purpose.
All intentional order we create is inherently knowable and thus predictable; we prefer to see some chaos in our order, because that is what nature would do.
This is why old aged buildings elicit more than freshly kept sterile bricks. People love Rome, Amsterdam and Venice.
Every new architectural movement that does not internalize this lesson will fail to cater to this innate human aesthetic desire: the chaotic order that reminds us of nature (and God if that is your cup of tea).
May 1
The Slanic salt mine in Romania is the closest thing to the Mines of Moria on Earth
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Idse Val retweeted
Apr 30
Women voting for more immigration, same mysterious principles at work
Apr 30
Die bekloppte Taubenfrau vom Bahnhof Friedrichstr. entleert mittlerweile 3 Säcke Taubenfutter täglich, währenddessen die ganze Gegend unter einer zentimeterdicken Schicht Taubenscheiße verschwindet.
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